Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-01-28
Alma. Mich. Friday. January 20. 1887

Anc H'iiB cN-goVern0rs OF Michigan
are Felch, Blair, Baldwin, Jerome
Begole and Alger.
| WANTED:-Rooms to rent near Tn,
Normal by young ladies who wish f
board themselves. Also several vounl
men would like to obtain employment
during part of the day so as to attend
school. Adress Normal.
On Tuesday evening last Messrs. b.
G. Button, JOS. Vancise, b. +. Worth
lngton, W. l.. IIough, A. l.. Kehn. NJ.
Bloomberg and I. NJ. Brown. of this
village, went to st. Louis as members
OF Alma Lodge /. .. O. f., for the pur-
pose OF taking the degrees of the /. O.
.. +. Encampment. They were met
there by representatives from st. Louis.
Ithaca, Riverdale, Salt River and
OwosSo, and the threo degrees. which
are very impressive and elaborate. were
conferred, after which an elegant re-
past was spread by the st. Louis mem
berS of the Encampment, the whole
ceremony lasting far into the morning
OF Wednesday. We notice the new
patrlarchs limping about town ever
since and looking very pitiable, prob
ably only from an attack of rheuma-
tism, but we, as ignorant observers
should rather think it caused by the too
iraternal and loving caresses of the
festive goat.
1T IS a popular impression" said
capt. Smallman of the Dean Richmond
that Lake Michigan has never been
frozen over. This is a mistake. Two
years ago there was good ice all the
way from Milwaukee to Grand Haven
about eighty miles-and the anchor ice
the Ice nearest the shore)was two and
three feet thick. Anchor ice is not dis
-urbed by winds. 1t attaches itself TO |
he frozen sand and there it stays until |
L becomes rotten. There is good |
ieal Of ice in the lake this winter. but
lot near so much as there was two wears
lgo, when it was considered no feat at
III to walk from Milwaukee to Racine
IN the anchor or shore ice. Two weeks
more of right smart cold weather would
reeZe the pond from shore to shore.
MT good many years experience as a
resh-water sailor tells me that the
7orst is over. and that there will be
Dts of open water befor the first ofnext
lonth.-Chicago Heruld.
For some time the Alma RECORD has S
cen building fond hop, s-"castles in \
ne ar, as 1t were--over the news that ,
adshnlan, an extensive dry goods mer-
laht OF Charlotte, was about to locate ]
Anna. 1t turns out as most of the Il
ECORD' S predictions have and is thus a
zed mp III the Ereaing Ne,es: "A. u. p
aughman OF Charlotte says that the ,
port that he is going To Alma is "A u
lstake. lie Is going to New York the u
i OF March to buy IA big stock Of il
'ods. Elm Hall Local. :,
Notwithstanding the profound wis :,
IN of the Erening Necs and the Local J.
we should give the Local the prece- !,
nee, we suppOse-they do occasionally l.
axe mistakes. The RECORD reported ;,
at Baughman was coming here and y
stand by the statement. Some !,
ool' correspondent of the NccS then :;
ported that Baughman would ren,orc -
stock from Charlotte and this of -
urse brought out denial, but if the -,
elley infants and the Ercning Nc,rs =.
II wait long enough they will see a =,
od portion of that New York stock a.
TERED too deposited in Alma in time -
the spring trade. Now, children. >.
mt get excited and fly to pieces y
ain, but keep cool. -